ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday – while addressing thelaunching ceremony of Pakistan’s first ever barometer to measure greencharacter and cleanliness of cities the “Clean Green Pakistan Index (CGPI)”– stated that Lahore was much clean city 35 years ago.
“We had believed that Delhi was the most polluted city […] lung diseasesare increasing […] pollution is a silent killer,” he said, while regrettingthat nobody had considered the alarming state of pollution in Lahore city.
“It is even difficult to breathe […] in the last 10 years, 70 percent ofLahore’s trees were chopped down and pollution has reached alarming levelin Lahore,” he added.
The premier remarked that Lahore has turned into the third most pollutedcity of the world.
“We need to mend our ways […] we are introducing the best local body systemin the history of the state […] Sindh cannot develop without this system,”he went on to say.
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“Naya Pakistan will be formed with collective effort […] at first [itsconcept] must be conceived, only then [its results] could be observed atground,” he pointed out.
“Greed is the most damaging for humans; [I am] happy that people are payingtaxes,” he added.
